Document partitiong tables ancillary object handling some more

alvherre · alvherre · commit 97dcd5cd1500 · 2020-04-21T17:14:18.000-04:00
Add a couple of lines to make it explicit that indexes, constraints, triggers are added, removed, or left alone. Backpatch to pg11. Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200421162038.GA18628@alvherre.pgsql
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
@@ -864,7 +864,9 @@ WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REM
       Note that if the existing table is a foreign table, it is currently not
       allowed to attach the table as a partition of the target table if there
       are <literal>UNIQUE</literal> indexes on the target table.  (See also
-      <xref linkend="sql-createforeigntable"/>.)
+      <xref linkend="sql-createforeigntable"/>.)  For each user-defined
+      row-level trigger that exists in the target table, a corresponding one
+      is created in the attached table.
      </para>
 
      <para>
@@ -926,10 +928,11 @@ WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REM
     <term><literal>DETACH PARTITION</literal> <replaceable class="parameter">partition_name</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      This form detaches specified partition of the target table.  The detached
+      This form detaches the specified partition of the target table.  The detached
       partition continues to exist as a standalone table, but no longer has any
       ties to the table from which it was detached.  Any indexes that were
-      attached to the target table's indexes are detached.
+      attached to the target table's indexes are detached.  Any triggers that
+      were created as clones of those in the target table are removed.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
@@ -397,7 +397,9 @@ WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REM
       Creates the table as a <firstterm>partition</firstterm> of the specified
       parent table. The table can be created either as a partition for specific
       values using <literal>FOR VALUES</literal> or as a default partition
-      using <literal>DEFAULT</literal>.
+      using <literal>DEFAULT</literal>.  Any indexes, constraints and
+      user-defined row-level triggers that exist in the parent table are cloned
+      on the new partition.
      </para>
 
      <para>
